Project Team


Project Manager

Fenella Carpena

Associate Professor of Economics
Oslo Business School
Oslo Metropolitan University

Research fields: development economics, applied microeonomics

PhD Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2017


Co-Principal Investigators

Arlan Brucal

Economist
World Bank
Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice

Research fields: firm dynamics, industrial organization

PhD Economics, University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa, 2016

Simon Galle

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
BI Norwegian Business School

Research fields: international trade, development & growth, firm dynamics

PhD Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2016

Maire Carroline Magante

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Ateneo de Manila University

Research fields: labor, migration, urban, and development economics

PhD Urban Studies and Regional Science, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 2020

Anthony Sabarillo

Assistant Professor
University of the Philippines
School of Economics

Research fields: international trade, public finance, environmental economics

PhD Economics, University of the Philippines, 2022


Research Assistants

Carlos Harry de Taza, MA

Harry is a PhD student at the University of the Philippines School of Economics, where he also completed his bachelor’s. His research interests are on labor and monetary economics.

Jewelle Anne Lalunio, MA

Welle is a PhD candidate at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from UPSE.

Rainier Mora, MA

Rainier is a Lecturer of Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He obtained his Masters in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University.

John Vincent Serrano

John Vincent Serrano is a graduate student pursuing a Master of Arts in Economics at the
University of the Philippines School of Economics. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering, with a Minor in Economics, from
Ateneo de Manila University.